0.4 Release Tracking Issue

[maspe36]

This issue tracks the 0.4 ros2_rust release.

Added

• Preliminary support for parameters (#332)
• Support for Iron Irwini (#319)
• Serde big array support (#328)
• service_is_ready() (#339)
• Basic functionality for loading introspection type support libraries (#279)
• Extend string types (#293)
• Add time source and clock API to nodes (#325)

Removed

• Removed Galactic support (#306)
• Removed Foxy support (#318)

Fixes

• Fix hardcoded rmw_gid_t length (#309)
• Fixed an issue where cpu usage remained at 100% (#330)
• Swapped usage of rosidl_cmake over to the new rosidl_pycommon. (#297)
• Improve efficiency of deserializing strings (#300)

Changes

• Make constructor methods for pub/sub/etc. take rcl_node_t mutex (#290)
• Return Arc from the create_node function to match other create_X functions (#294)
• Refactor spin and spin_once to mimic rclcpp's Executor API (#324)

Devops

• Update Rust toolchain to 1.71.0 and remove pydocstyle workaround (#321)
• Disable clippy warnings for u128 types (#322) & (#341)
• Use ros2-testing debs for rolling (#308)
• Allow rolling job to fail. Force install of known to work version of (#302)
• Remove libc dependencies (#284)
• Allow usage of different ROS distributions in Dockerfile (#313)
• Vendor rcl_interfaces as a private module into rclrs (#288)
• Bindgen usage improvements (#323)

[esteve]

@maspe36 thanks for collecting all this info. Perhaps it'd be useful to split this into features, updates, fixes, etc. what do you think?

[maspe36]

Gave it a shot, let me know what you think

[esteve]

@maspe36 awesome, thanks!

[esteve]

@maspe36 I've updated the ticket now that #325 is merged. I'll tag, create a new release and upload rclrs to crates.io tomorrow

I can also make an announcement and all that, unless @jhdcs or @nnmm want to do it.

[esteve]

Released!! https://crates.io/crates/rclrs/0.4.0 🥳